Memorials

S. Croce 192 Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino Sirigatti

Situated In

friary of S. Croce -- chiesa -- transetto -- braccio sinistro

Rosselli Number	192.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	E
Length	2.74
Width	1.4
Documented Types	lapida chiusino lastrone
Component Parts	slab cover
Decorative Elements
Material	Carrara marble type of marble quarried in the area around Carrara, Tuscany, Italy (Luna in antiquity), characterized by a fine, compact grain and varies in color from pure white to creamy white, sometimes with a bluish tinge; a favorite stone of sculptors from antiquity to the present, including Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011576 green marble a light or dark green massive serpentinite, commonly with veinlets of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate. It is capable of being polished and is commercially considered a marble; it is also considered to be among the highest-quality serpentinites. Alternate Names: verde antico; verd antique Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300171549
Database ID	11042

Dates

July 12th, 1354 or 1381 a	inscription
circa 1382 b

Inscriptions (1 total)

777

+ hic•iacet•copus•pudeti / s•viri•iohais•lapi•nicholini•desirigattis•honorabilis•civis•cui• / bona•fama•ememori / a•vivat•ippetuu•caia•reqeschat•ipacie•obiit mccclxxxi die•xii•iulii

Here lies the body of the wise man Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino from the Sirigatti family, an honorable citizen whose good reputation and memory shall live in perpetuity, whose soul rests in peace. He died in 1381 on the twelfth day of July.

Individuals (8 total)

Niccolini Sirigatti, Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino di Ruzza di Arrigo	July 12th, 1381
Niccolini Sirigatti, Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino di Ruzza di Arrigo	circa 1382 to present
Niccolini Sirigatti, Niccolaio di Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino di Ruzza	August 2nd, 1383	c
da Mezzola, Ermellina di M. Zanobi di Giovanni di Cione (uxor Lapo di Giovanni Niccolini)	February 29th, 1400
Niccolini Sirigatti, Filippo di Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino di Ruzza	September 8th, 1429	d
Niccolini Sirigatti, Lapo di Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino di Ruzza	December 27th, 1430
Arzarghi di Milano, Caterina di Biagio di Giovanni (uxor Antonio Gianfigliazzi, poi Lapo Niccolini)	February 27th, 1451	e
Niccolini Sirigatti, Biagio (messer) di Lapo di Giovanni di Lapo di Niccolino	May 1467	f

Groups (1 total)

Niccolini Sirigatti

Sources (5 total)

A. Chiti, Le lapidi terragne di Santa Croce I, ca. 1350-1417	pp. 80-81, no. 4
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 47
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 323, no. 192
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 14v
Pines, Doralynn Schlossman, “The Tomb Slabs of Santa Croce: A New Sepoltuario”, Columbia University	pp. 431-436, no. 67

Notes

[a] The inlaid inscription on Giovanni di Lapo's tomb is difficult to read, resulting in a variety of transcriptions in the sepoltuari and secondary literature. While it notes the month and day of the honoree's death, the year is off by twenty-seven years, seeming to read MCCCLIIII instead of MCCCLXXXI. However, comparison to the peculiar X in the number twelve, where two dots frame a vertical line, suggests that the faint traces of similar marks in the year should be read as XXXI rather than IIII.
[b] Since it carries the death date of the honoree, the tomb must have been installed after his death on July 12th, 1381 but before August 2nd, 1383 when his son Niccolaio was buried in the tomb.
[c] Chiti notes that Niccolò left a pietanza to the friars of Santa Croce for ten years and that he was buried in his father's tomb.
[d] Filippo's nephew Paolo di Lapo di Giovanni Niccolini recorded his death and burial in his Ricordanze kept in the Niccolini Archive, Registri Antichi, vol. 4, fol. 120.
[e] Caterina's son Paolo di Lapo described her death and burial in the Niccolini tomb that bore his grandfather's name and family coat of arms. Archivio Niccolini, Registri antichi, 4, fol. 133v.
[f] Messer Biagio's brother Paolo described his death but did not specify where he was buried. He does state several times that the tomb of Giovanni di Lapo Niccolini in the transept of Santa Croce was for the use of his direct line. We no longer believe that the tomb in the cemetery of the Badia of Florence was dedicated to messer Biagio as suggested in Anne Leader, The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012, pp. 69-70, but rather to his great-great uncle Biagio di Niccolino. Gravedigger records could clarify the specific date and location of messer Biagio's burial.